The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 40

The Wairágí said: Son, what art thou doing here, in a wood full of nothing but trees and Rákshasas[2], and dark as the Hair of the Great God, of which it is an earthly copy?

Who acts: Wairágí, thou · What happens: say, do, be · To what, where: wood, earthly copy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wairágí, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wairágí	det
2	Wairágí	Wairágí	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Son	punct
5	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 art	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 art	nsubj
8	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Son	acl:relcl
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 doing	nsubj
10	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 art	ccomp
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 doing	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wood	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doing	obl
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wood	amod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 nothing	case
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 full	obl
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 trees	cc
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 nothing	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Rákshasas	cc
22	Rákshasas	Rákshasas	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 nothing	conj
23	[	[	PUNCT	_	24 2	punct
24	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 Rákshasas	flat
25	]	]	PUNCT	_	24 2	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dark	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dark	cc
28	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 Hair	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Hair	det
31	Hair	Hair	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 dark	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 God	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 God	det
34	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 God	amod
35	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Hair	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 copy	punct
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 copy	obl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 copy	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 copy	cop
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 copy	det
42	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 copy	amod
43	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 God	appos
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Wairágí			Son ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	do	gerund	thou		a wood; here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	Wairágí	a earthly copy		of the Great God	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 40